Maps

Google and now others such as Bing and Chrome offer a variety of extremely interesting mapping tools. Check out what is available.
 * What and Why?**


 * Assignment**
 * 1) Explore the above links.
 * 2) Create a maps or mapping page.
 * 3) Optional: Find two articles or videos where teachers talk about how they use any of these tools with their students. Summarize articles/videos (2-3 sentences) and hyperlink to article or video on your wiki page.
 * 4) Samples: Tell what you explored, what you discovered. Include at least 6 screen shots and 1 embedded map to document and illustrate your findings. (forgot how to do a screenshot? Check out Handy Tools page in this wiki.)
 * 5) Reflections: Based on what you have discovered, on your wiki page tell how you and your students might use this tool to support learning.


 * Due: Dec 15, 3 pm**

>> === === >> Google announced that it is broadening its Street View feature to include panoramic images of Brazil's Amazon River and Rio Negro. The company is working in concert with the nonprofit Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon, which says it hopes the images will expand awareness of the deforestation affecting the region. Google executives said the project is the biggest Street View challenge since the feature was launched in 2007, adding that they will use a special off-road tricycle to pedal the cameras deep into the Amazon rain forest. BBC >> http://maps.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/grand-canyon/ >> @https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/grand-canyon?gl=us >> Here are two new additions to [|The Best Online Geography Games]:
 * Google maps, street view (check out Bing's street view too), what interesting webcams can you find?
 * ===Google Earth Pro Is Now Free -- cool classroom ideas, Feb 2015===
 * ===Teaching with Google Earth: A Complete Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom===
 * ===Check out Google Maps Gallery ===
 * Check out Street View Treks
 * Google Street View takes to the Amazon (see interactive map at bottom of this page)
 * Google has also mapped hiking trails in the Grand Canyon. Check them out.
 * Google has gone to Egypt and the Pyramids of Giza
 * Online Geography Games by Larry Ferlazzo
 * [|GR8CTZ — Great Cities of the World] challenges you to guess which cities you’re seeing in Google Street View. It has different difficulty levels.
 * [|LocateStreet] is a similar game using Street View. One nice feature is that it offers clues.
 * Thanks to [|Google Maps Mania]for the tips.

>> @http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/science/earth/03oceans.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&th&emc=th > > Educators at a New York school used Google Lit Trips, which combines Google Earth satellite images and literature, to enhance learning. Fifth-graders read "The Family Apart" and were able to use the Google images to follow the path of the Orphan Train, used to move homeless and abandoned children during the 19th century. One library-media specialist said students were enthusiastic about the exercise. "I've never seen them so intent," she said. "This got them to deeper learning." Edutopia magazine > Check out: [|//Hunger Games// by Suzanne Collins.kmz] > Make Way for Ducklings > Bud Not Buddy > Esperanza Rising > > PC users can now get directions through Google Voice Search by speaking into their computers' microphones. Such searches can be done only inside a Chrome browser, and at the moment, the service is available only in English and within the U.S. (CNET)
 * Google Earth: check out what you can discover -- oceans, skies, historic, time of day, calculate distances, find webcams, earth quakes, volcanoes, ship wrecks, tagged whales and dolphins, 3D views of buildings, ancient Rome, cloud cover, Tracks4Africa, EarthWatchExpeditions and more
 * [| Google Earth turns 10 today](June 29, 2015)
 * Read Teaching with Google Earth - Awesome Tips and Tutorials
 * Explore Get Your Google Earth Going article and associated websites.
 * Read //Google Earth Fills Its Watery Gaps//
 * Read Google Earth In The Science Classroom for some most interesting ideas and features available in Google Earth
 * Explore 50 Amazing Finds on Google Earth
 * Go On Safari in Google Earth
 * 5 Good Google Tools for Social Studies Teachers - And How to Use Them
 * Google Lit Tripsshow students the places they read about. Read about Google Lit Trips
 * Real World Math: Use Google Earth and these real world math problems to bring math alive. Lessons for grades 5-10.
 * Where am I? Google Voice Search now does mapping
 * Check out the free posters available from Google too @http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html
 * And, there are even more google products, check them out


 * Collections of Historical Maps and Ideas for Using Them In Your Classroom This is great for Social Studies teachers.

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 * It's also possible to use maps to advertise events. FallingFruit.org does just that.
 * Get Going: Mapping Teachers' Favorite Field Trip Spots
 * Planet Labs -- images of a variety of interesting features from around the world. Social studies majors, check out this site!
 * [|Eye on Multimedia: Mapping Our World --]Use geographic data to understand the world. Social studies majors, how might this be used in your classroom? What questions could your students ask and ponder? The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares
 * Surging Seas -- Explore how raising sea levels will impact towns and cities. another site too

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 * 1) Read 100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration
 * 2) Read 100 Ways Google can make you a better educator
 * 3) Explore Get Your Google Earth Going article and associated websites.
 * 4) Explore Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Education and/or My Favorite Web Tools of 2010 and/or Top 25 Sites of 2010 or AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
 * 5) SketchUp -- a google tool for geometry and 3-D modeling --moving to Trimble (April 2012) @http://ww2.trimble.com/3d/ (ugh, you now have to pay for this) --- So, try some of these tools... Web based 3D / CAD for kids: Tinkercad & 3DTin (Bonus: Origo, a 3D printer for 10 year olds)
 * 1) Ngrams (graph how frequently words are used) What our Words Tell Us (an editorial discussing how word usage has changed over time, only the first half pertains to our discussion)
 * 2) Google Art Project

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Use Street View to view the Rio Negro River and Amazon River, Brazil. Drag PegMan to the darker blue sections of the river where Street View is available (near Manaus, Santarem, Itaituba and Macapa).

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